Harper for Windows Is Available for Download

After sev­eral weeks of work, the Harper Desktop app for Windows is fi­nally ready for down­load, as promised. Please note that it’s un­der a “beta” la­bel for now. As it is not as pol­ished as I would like quite yet, plus the fact that I want to be able to ser­vice user com­plains prop­erly, I will not be adding it to the Harper web­site un­til early next week. Consider it a soft-launch. Un­til then, it will be avail­able for down­load from Harper’s re­leases page on GitHub.

Current Limitations

I have not yet given my­self the time to go through and pro­duce a cu­rated list of sup­ported ap­pli­ca­tions and where they tend to ex­ist on typ­i­cal Windows sys­tems. As such, you will need to add each app to the in­te­gra­tions page your­self.

Additionally, I am still wait­ing to ob­tain a cer­tifi­cate from Microsoft for the bi­nary. I don’t ex­pect it to take much more time, but un­til then you will likely be faced with a warn­ing popup that in­forms you that the pack­age is not signed.

Other News

The Harper Chrome Extension has just sur­passed 50 thou­sand weekly ac­tive users. That does­n’t even count the peo­ple us­ing Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or any of the other won­der­ful plat­forms we sup­port. If each ac­tive in­stal­la­tion of Harper was a per­son, Harper City would prob­a­bly have a pop­u­la­tion greater than my home­town of Boulder, Colorado.

There are also now two pub­lished books writ­ten with Harper. I highly sug­gest you check out Ben Balter’s won­der­ful post about how he ov­erengi­neered his book.